Theatre Practitioner

at  Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust

Full & Part Time posts available
We are expanding and an exciting opportunity has arisen for qualified Nurses and Operating Department Practitioners to join our highly skilled Theatre Teams working in our spacious, fully equipped state of the art Theatres across both Whiston and St Helens Hospital sites including our new theatre suite opening in summer 2024.
The post holder will gain experience in General Surgery, Urology, Trauma and Orthopaedics, Burns and Plastics, Obstetrics and Gynaecology, ENT, Ophthalmology and a busy Emergency and Trauma Services.
Essential experience is required
An Enhanced DBS Certificate, with the checking of both the Children’s and Adults’ Barred Lists is required for this post.

Why Join Us? In exchange for your dedication and enthusiasm, you will benefit from:

• Comprehensive induction;
• Supernumerary/preceptorship period if you are a newly qualified ODP or a Nurse;
• Training in various surgical specialities;
• Access to funded courses;
• Support with revalidation.

Applicants will be registered with the NMC or HCPC, or are currently working towards obtaining their professional registration. They will be enthusiastic, self-motivated with a commitment to work with our multi-disciplinary team in providing safe, quality care for all our patients.
The post holder will be dedicated, flexib l e and have excellent communication skills. Suitable applicants should have demonstrable theatre experience but consideration will be given to enthusiastic applicants without Theatre experience as we have our own Clinical Education Team to support training, preceptorship and development for Theatre Staff.
The post holder may be required to work across both Whiston and St Helens sites and will be flexible working weekends including on call commitment, with a possible rotation to night duty and participate in rotation between specialties.
The Secretary of State has approved the partnership between St Helens & Knowsley and Southport & Ormskirk Hospitals.
From 1 st July we have come together as a single organisation under the name Mersey & West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust.
The Trust delivers acute hospital care, intermediate care, community, and primary care services to a population of over 600,000 people with a combined workforce of around 9000 dedicated and skilled staff from 17 locations including Whiston, Southport & Formby, St Helens, Ormskirk and Newton hospitals.
The Trust provides regional services for burns, plastic surgery and spinal injuries to more than 4 million people across Mersey and West Lancashire, Cheshire, the Isle of Man and North Wales.

KEY DUTIES

To support the development of clinical teams by creating a learning environment in which the individuals’ performance is reviewed.
To support the delegation of work within the team and review performance.
To work with and on behalf of the Theatre Team Leader managing key operational aspects of theatres and providing support and advice on all matters.
To establish excellent working relationships with all service users and actively encourage and promote joint working in the pursuit of continuous service improvement.

CLINICAL & PROFESSIONAL RESPONSIBILITIES

Maintain personal, professional knowledge and clinical competencies as required for NMC/HCPC.
Responsibility for the implementation and delivery of individual patient care on a research based best practice approach.
In close liaison with others, promote a culture of training, development and evidence-based research in the pursuit of clinical excellence.
To support development and implementation of operating department practices in theatres which reflects evidenced-based research e.g. NCEPOD and clinical audit to improve the quality of patient care.
To act on and support implementation of appropriate actions in response to complaints or comments by patients and/or service users.
To ensure that all equipment and working practices within theatres comply with and meet the requirements of the Health & Safety at Work Act and other statutory requirements.
To ensure that the quality standards in all areas of service provision by monitoring and reviewing performance while contributing to the improvement of all quality standards.
To input on and support implementation of appropriate actions in response to Datix reports
Support the Team Leaders to undertake risk assessments to identify potential risks to patients and staff and success of operational objectives, producing action plans as necessary.
To take individual responsibility of being aware of and adhere to all Trust policies and procedures.

LINE MANAGEMENT/SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES

To assist and support the Team Leaders in achieving clinical, operational and corporate objectives, by the supervision of the clinical team.
Support the management of emergencies by all personnel is fully compliant with hospital and trust policy.
To support the theatre team in order to support the achievement of the Care Group and Trust objectives through the appraisal process.
Support the Team Leaders and Theatre Operational leads to manage inefficiencies and ineffective utilisation.
To supervise the implementation and regularly review agreed clinical protocols to ensure patient safety.
To actively participate in all clinical audits.
Participate in the recruitment and induction of staff working in theatres and ensure Trust policies on recruitment and retention are strictly adhered to.
Ensure own Personal Development Plans following the appraisal process in support of service provision are monitored and met within agreed timescales and support team members PDP as required.
Support staff discipline in all areas of service delivery and where necessary escalate to team leaders and operational leads to manage incidents of misconduct in accordance with Trust policies and procedures.
Support and encourage the integration of staff throughout theatres and aim to develop a greater breadth of competencies enabling service flexibility for the future